2024-04-10 16:07:00
It’s morning in Gaza. This is what you need to know
President Joe Biden offered one of his harshest criticisms of Israel’s handling of the war in Gaza, describing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to the conflict as a “mistake” and calling for an end to the fighting. .
“Well, I’ll tell you, I think what he’s doing is a mistake. “I don’t agree with his approach,” Biden told Univision in an interview.
Biden’s comments add to growing American criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza.
Hours before the president’s interview aired, the Biden administration dismissed Netanyahu’s pronouncement that a date had been set for the Rafah offensive as bluster fueled by the prime minister’s fragile political position at home, senior officials told CNN. administration officials.
Here are the latest developments in the conflict:
Rafah Updates: Netanyahu said “no force in the world” would stop Israeli troops from entering Rafah to eliminate Hamas units said to be there. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel has not told the US the date of its offensive in Rafah, but that he hopes the Biden administration will see “Israeli colleagues again next week” for talks.
On the ground: An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza killed 14 people, most of them women and children, according to a hospital spokesperson.
Proposed agreement: Hamas said the latest deal proposed by Israel does not meet its demands, but that it would review the proposal and respond. Biden’s top national security adviser said he asked Hamas interlocutors to press for a quick response to the proposed Gaza ceasefire and hostage release.
Aftermath of Al-Shifa: Health workers have exhumed at least 381 bodies from mass graves in and around Al-Shifa Hospital, after they said Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians and left their bodies to decompose during their two-week siege To the place. That number does not include people buried within the hospital grounds. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said several United Nations agencies are helping to recover the bodies and provide “dignified burials.”
US criticism increases: Democratic US Senator Chris Coons said “too many civilians have been killed” in response to a CNN investigation into Israeli forces opening fire on a group of people while waiting for help in Gaza on February 29. CNN analyzed dozens of videos and eyewitness accounts, which cast doubt on Israel’s chronology of that night, when more than 100 people were killed.
War crimes accusation: Children in Gaza have been dying from “hunger-related complications” since Israel began using hunger as a weapon of war, which is a war crime, Human Rights Watch said in a report.
aid crisis: Turkey has announced new restrictions on exports to Israel after Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan accused Israel of denying a request for an airdrop of aid to Gaza. The US military dock in Gaza, for the delivery of aid by sea, would “probably” be ready on April 21, according to US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
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